Charity: Water

A nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by Scott Harrison, a former New York City nightclub promoter, dedicated to providing clean drinking water to people in developing nations. Charity: Water, stylized with a lower case w as charity: water, is headquartered in New York City and works across 28 countries in Africa and Asia, funding wells, boreholes and other water systems through what it calls its 100 percent model, under which every public donation goes directly to funding water projects while separate major donors cover the organization's operating costs. The organization emphasizes transparency in how its funded projects are tracked, using GPS mapping, video documentation and real time updates so that individual donors can follow the specific well or water system their contribution supported, and as of 2025 it reports having raised more than 1 billion dollars and provided clean water access to more than 20 million people.